Happy Hour Roundup

“First I congratulate those who were involved in capturing this guy. I think that’s a significant step. He needs to be interrogated extensively. And I hope that will occur,” McConnell said. “There has been a tendency in this administration, as you know, to treat this like a law enforcement matter. Read them their rights. Get them a lawyer. I hope they’re not doing that.”

After an hour of watching this all unfold, I was ultimately struck by the banality of the conjecture. After all, Barack Obama will be president for the entirety of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Who’s to say the two of them aren’t allowing all of the Benghazi ringleaders to walk free on purpose, so they can tee up a series of faux-heroic operations to capture all of them, each timed to bolster her candidacy at pivotal moments?

The survey found that after receiving their deferrals, nearly 60 percent of those undocumented immigrants — often referred to as Dreamers — were hired for new jobs, and 45 percent reported increased earnings. About 57 percent of those polled had obtained a driver’s license, something undocumented immigrants are unable to do in many states. The report also found that 49 percent of those polled had opened their first bank account.

Now, if only someone could pin Republicans down on the point that when they call for Obama to “enforce immigration law,” what they’re really demanding is the deportation of the DREAMers. — gs

* Also be sure to read Ed Kilgore’s response: “there is a nascent majority coalition for a progressive agenda that mainly lacks a compelling meta-message of middle-class aspiration threatened not by ‘big government’ but by government serving the interests of economic elites.”